What you will see is an adorable little bunny who hops around in her little pink dress and then gets a drink from a syringe. Squee! The really weird part is the title of the video at YouTube: “Rabbit Female Wearing Ladies Dress Walking And Jumping , Drinking Milk From Injection Nipple.” Those are obviously words strung together for search engine optimization, and the overall effect is downright industrial. (via Metafilter)

Jordon Cox considered taking a train from Sheffield to his home Essex, but then found out that he could fly home cheaper -although that cheap route went through Berlin! So you better believe he took the flight to germany. His layover in Berlin was long enough for him to see the downtown sights, and he still saved money over a train ticket. This is explained by the fact that he fly RyanAir, which is notoriously cheap. At one time, they were considering charging extra for use of the bathroom on the planes, but I don’t know if they ever instituted that. Still, it pays to check around for travel prices. (via Viral Viral Videos)

Saturday, January 30, 2016

What if you drank soda every time you took a drink? This seems like a strange question, as I know quite a few people who drink nothing but soda pop. We know it’s not good, but how downright bad a lot of carbonated soft drinks are for you is scary.

AsapSCIENCE gives us the rundown of the bad things too much soda can do to you. Whether this kind of information will do any good is unclear, as people who drink too much soda have been told that it’s bad for them all their lives. What do you drink all day? (via Geeks Are Sexy)

Evie has a balloon,and it’s her favorite thing ever! She carries it around with her all the time. Maybe it’s her security balloon! And like any small child with a balloon, she goes into a panic when it gets away from her. There’s a bit of tension in this story, but things work out in the end, and Evie gets her balloon back. (via Tastefully Offensive)

The staff of Jimmy Kimmel Live! went out on the streets to ask children which country is the best country in the world. Their answers show that U.S. schools have dropped patriotic indoctrination lessons, and they’ve apparently also dropped basic geography. Considering what they had to work with, the kids came up with some imaginative and amusing responses. What kid wouldn’t want to move someplace where they could have their own koala? (via Uproxx)

If you found The Force Awakens to be a bit familiar, you’re not the only one. There are a lot of elements that harken back to the original trilogy, and the various character types have many things in common with all adventure movies. Here they are, meeting each other, in this video that may contain spoilers for those who haven’t seen The Force Awakens. If you haven’t seen the original trilogy, this will spoil nothing. Although the “equivalent” characters are superficially similar, they aren’t all that impressed with each other. (via Geeks Are Sexy)

The always-entertaining Donald Trump is doing his best to prove once and for all that there is something terribly wrong with the way we select our leaders. He skipped last night’s GOP debate, so Stephen Colbert staged a Trump only debate, with the Donald going up against his own worst enemy: himself. (via Uproxx)

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Simon Tofield, the animator behind Simon’s Cat, talks with Nicky Trevorrow, a cat behavior expert at Cats Protection about why our furballs do the odd things they do, specifically the sudden craziness. You’ve seen your cat switch off his senses and explode in a flurry of activity like a scalded haint. That’s crazy time.

Better yet, Trevorrow gives us tips on how to help cats release that energy in a more productive way. Tofield is beginning a new series of videos called Cat Logic. Future episodes will explore other cat behaviors that seem incomprehensible to we mere humans. (via Tastefully Offensive)

Because so many candidates announced their intentions very early for the 2016 presidential election, the run-up to the Iowa caucuses has taken a particularly long time. It’s got to be a hard, thankless job to call voters in Iowa to ask about their political opinions. Those folks have been bothered for months already. Seth Myers tried calling a few folks -probably a lot more than made it into the final mix- to see how they’re holding up under the onslaught.

He did find a few who were not only willing to talk, but were pretty funny. The funniest of all was his own mother. The Iowa caucus will be held on Monday, February first. Once that’s done, the time between other states’ primaries will be shorter and less scrutinized. (via Uproxx)

The other day I posted The White Room, in which a guy died and immediately got the opportunity to ask questions about the unknowns in his life. That was a comedy, while this is anything but. The protagonist here was the victim of a traffic accident. Contains NSFW language.

The lesson here is somewhat ambiguous. Yeah, he knows now what he should have done differently, but he didn’t have the answers until it was too late to change anything. And would he have listened if he did? Or maybe it all comes back to the old adage, “Live each day as if it’s your last.” The Answers is an award-winning short film by Michael Goode and Daniel Lissing. (via Digg)

When the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986, there were seven astronauts on board whose lives were tragically cut short. On the 30th anniversary of that tragedy, get to know each of them in an article I wrote for mental_floss.

Animation student Jacob Frey presents his thesis work from the Institute of Animation in Ludwigsburg, Germany. It's a tale of a video game-obsessed boy and the present his mother gives him, hoping to get him off the couch and maybe even outside for a change. You might recognize the story right off. Don’t look if you want to see the video first, but the animation is based on this 2012 comic by Fabio Coala at Mentirinhas. Read it in English here. (via Tastefully Offensive)

Davie504 recorded 100 great bass lines a couple of years ago, and now he's got 100 more songs for us- all in one medley. The songs are all labeled, and cover about 50 years of tunes you know and love. Well, you might not know them all. I grooved along with the constant switch from familiar (over 20 years old) to the not-so-familiar (less than 20 years old). They’re all enjoyable, whether you know them by heart or not. (Thanks, Davide!)

Norwegian physicist Andreas Wahl goes way out of his way to demonstrate how physics work. Here he is, experimenting on himself for the TV program Life on the Line. I didn’t quite understand what he was doing when I first watched, and I must admit, it made my stomach drop a little when the stunt became clear. It didn't drop 14 meters, though, like he did! The point of his stunt is that “things rotate faster when they approach a central point.” It’s explained a little more in this article. (via Viral Viral Videos)

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

This is the 1977 video for “Apache” by Danish musician Tommy Seebach. It just screams "1970!" doesn't it? A friend on a discussion group reminded me of the song, which I had posted years ago, but was lost.

Conan O’Brien recently got an invitation to travel to Qatar with First
Lady Michelle Obama to entertain U.S. troops at Al Udeid Air Base.
That’s all well and good, but for security reasons, they wouldn’t let
Conan take video of any sort while they were traveling. That had to be
difficult for a TV guy. So he had the story of the trip recreated in
animation. It was a blessing in disguise. The fact that there’s no actual video of
the trip allowed Conan to embellish the tale just a little. As you’ll
see, he took advantage of that opportunity, without blowing his budget. (via Tastefully Offensive)

Justin Anderson is an Iraq War veteran who uses a wheelchair and is battling brain cancer. He has a badass all-terrain wheelchair donated by a veteran’s group. Anderson modified the chair by adding a snowplow blade! Now he can clear the snow from the sidewalks in his Bellevue, Nebraska, neighborhood to make walking to the nearby school safer and to save his neighbors the backbreaking chore of shoveling snow. WOWT caught up with Anderson as he plowed the sidewalks.

Justin Anderson’s make-shift snow plow isn't about the recognition he says, but more about his duty.

“It's very gratifying. It's nice to know you're appreciated. But even if I didn't get any response from anyone – or nobody said Thank You – I'd still do it,” said Anderson.

The producers of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver don’t want us to forget them while they are off the air, so here’s a web exclusive video showing us some of the unused graphics they’d made up. Whether they really made them up for previous shows and cut them, or they just made them up for this video, is anyone’s guess.

YouTuber GuitarHeroFailure was quite proud that he completed the Guitar Hero song “Bark at the Moon” by Ozzy Osbourne with nary an error. All the way through. So he uploaded the video sequence. Then it was pulled do to copyright infringement. What to do? He found a workaround.

Yes, he replaced the music by singing it. Not the lyrics, but every note played by the Guitar Hero game. He gets tired of singing at about 2:38 and starts to get a little weird. And he does his own lyrics toward the end. But if you really want weird, turn on the captions. The machine-captioned scat is hilarious! (via reddit)

Two painting crews show up at the same job, leading to a fight. They have a variety of weapons: paint guns, sprayers, rollers, even brushes for hand-to-hand combat. Their available ammo is, of course, paint. Bring it on! The glorious mess will take you back to your paintball days. If only we had such implements of destruction then! And paint someone else paid for! (via Geeks Are Sexy)

Sunday, January 24, 2016

What happens when you die? The people who know the answer to that are dead, and they’re not telling us anything. This skit from Chris and Jack takes a look at what may be in store for this one guy when he buys the farm. It’s a little reminiscent of the classic scene of St. Peter meeting you at the Pearly Gates to announce your final disposition. Except it’s not like that at all. (via Viral Viral Videos)

Girly magazines lead to murder! That’s the scenario in Pages of Death, a 1962 public service film distributed by the organization Citizens for Decent Literature. The film was lost for many years, but recently uncovered at the Oregon Historical Society. The narrator, Tom Harmon, is actor Mark Harmon’s father. Read more about Pages of Deathat mental_floss.

This particular number will drive a perfectionist mad, but it’s all in fun. It’s an excerpt from The Concert (or The Perils of Everybody) by Jerome Robbins, performed by the Opéra national de Paris in 2008. You can see the entire production here. (via reddit)

Saturday, January 23, 2016

The Undercover Boss version of Kylo Ren from Saturday Night Live has proven to be quite popular! So popular that we have t-shirts and action figures of Adam Driver as Kylo Ren in his disguise as “Matt the radar technician.” If you can’t get enough of the character, SNL has graced us with a behind-the-scenes video, featuring rehearsal bloopers and how they did the special effects. (via Digg)

A foot of snow stranded hundreds of motorists on the interstate in Kentucky last night. Local churches opened their doors for those who could get off the highway, and state police and the National Guard reached out to travelers who couldn’t.

It was definitely winter for the Endless Summer Band, who are on their way from Indianapolis to Johnson City, Tennessee, but found themselves stuck overnight on I-75 near Mt. Vernon. They were at a standstill for 15 hours. To pass the time, they rewrote the lyrics to the song “Stuck in the Middle with You” by Stealer’s Wheel to reflect their situation.

You can see a couple other videos they recorded during the jam at Business Insider and follow their progress at Facebook. Oh, they’ve moved a little, but still haven’t made it to Tennessee. The band is on their second traffic jam in southeastern Kentucky. Yes, that’s where I live, but I’m at home. (Thanks, Brother Bill!)

Jeff Cote was just driving along in Massachusetts Wednesday with his dash cam on when a chunk of frozen snow blew off the vehicle in front of him, and bam! Shattered windshield. That’s frightening. He’s lucky he made it off the road without further carnage. There’s about a foot of snow piled up on all our cars. I don’t look forward to clearing it all off eventually, but we will clear it all off. (via Daily of the Day)

Over a dozen elderly men are balancing on a log. What do think is going to happen? Yeah, they should have seen this coming, too. You’re going to feel terrible about laughing at this, but you will laugh. The description is in French, but let’s just assume that no one got hurt too badly that day. (via Digg)

By now, you’re probably either stuck at home thanks to snow, waiting for the snow to arrive, or wishing that you had snow. If you can’t make it to work or school, you might pass the time by making a snowman. Here’s some inspiration for your creations—or, if you live in a warmer climate, some pictures to cool off with, in a list I posted at mental_floss.

Friday, January 22, 2016

Benjamin Armstrong’s family and friends surprised him and his bride Aaliyah with a haka at their wedding reception in Aukland, New Zealand, last week. Aaliyah was moved to tears by the performance. After Benjamin and one of the bridesmaids joined in, the bride did, too. Josh Starks gave us a little background in the comments:

This Haka is called Tika Tonu. It is a Maori haka and was written in the Hawkes Bay, New Zealand in 1914 by a chief named Waimarama Puhara. He wrote it for his son and it is about the transition from boy to man.

As fashions change, so do automobiles. We’ve only had them around for about 100 years, so Mode did another in their 100 Years series featuring cars. Nice American luxury cars, that is. Which decade is your favorite for vehicles? I’d take any of them! (via Tastefully Offensive)

Limbitless Solutions is a non-profit that harnesses the latest technology to help those with disabilities. They designed and 3D-printed a prosthetic arm for 9-year-old Star Wars fan Alvin Garcia Flores. When the arm was ready, they enlisted the help of the 501st Legion to do a special presentation to Flores at Gateway Elementary School in Omaha. Darth Vader himself showed up to give Flores his new arm! School principal Terry Burton arranged for both the custom-made arm and the Star Wars presentation. That’s the kind of principal you don’t forget. If you think about it, it’s no surprise that a boy missing an arm would feel a special connection with Star Wars. In that universe, bionic arms are commonplace. Limbitless Solutions is doing their part to make them more commonplace in our world, too. (via Geeks Are Sexy)

Two guys, Leland and Holland, were taking a bunch of marijuana from Las Vegas to Bozeman, Montana. The problem is that they indulged in some along the way. Then they got paranoid and became convinced that the police were following them. They were so bothered about it that they called the Rexburg, Idaho, police and asked them to “just end it.” There were no police following the men, but they never caught on to that detail. The police dispatcher was very helpful, as were the policemen who met the two men and arrested them. (via Viral Viral Videos)

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Joe Sill made a beautiful little Star wars fan film. This is set on the planet Jakku, where a man and his daughter Kara are traveling to a desert community. But the skies are full of action. You start to wonder why it’s just a father and daughter, but then at the end we realize what happened to Kara’s mother. (via Boing Boing)